Taunt - This is a big perk for Rohpushin. To be fair, Machamp has Encore and Hariyama has Whilrwind. Even so, Taunt is effective because it shuts down the vast majority of wall's options such as recovery and pseudo-Hazing. It also prevents sweepers from getting an edge versus Rohpushin and kills Baton Pass teams that lack a Taunt user.

Hammer Arm / Force Palm - Believe it or not, these are perks for two reasons. First off, Machamp's only move that it can use while being bulky is Dynamicpunch, which requires No Guard. If it tries to use Guts, its only option is Cross Chop, which has 80% accuracy and 5 PP. Force Palm can induce paralysis while Hammer Arm offers Rohpushin a safe move that lowers its Speed, which barely matters unless it needs to be faster to Taunt a Pokemon (which in most cases it won't). Hammer Arm is great for Trick Room purposes since it actually speeds up Rohpushin.

Access to 101 HP Substitutes and Iron Fist - This makes Rohpushin an excellent choice for a SubPuncher. It's more beneficial that he's slower since he should be able to take less than 76% damage and still safely set up a Substitute (assuming no Sandstorm conditions). Iron Fist Focus Punches hurt coming from base 140 Attack.

Mach Punch - This is a big one. Machamp and Hariyama's only priority move is Bullet Punch. Rohpushin makes great use of a Revenge Killer. While it can't touch those that resist or are flat out immune to it, it provides a big perk for taking out Pokemon like Infernape, for example. This is a welcome move for the Bulk Up, Choice Band, hell even the Standard set.

Encourage - While it lacks a lot of moves to make use of it, and some of the moves are unkown, Encourage Rock Slide means that Rohpushin has access to a 97.5 BP Rock-type move that has 90% accuracy. Can't really frown upon that.

Lack of Sleep Talk - This is a disadvantage, since Rest + Sleep Talk Rohpushin would be excellent behind Guts. Fuck you Dragon Tail TM.

Lack of Close Combat - Let's be frank: It is unlike many of the Fighting-types such as Machamp and Hariyama in that it lacks this key move. It hurts Rohpushin as a sweeper, but it is nevertheless not a huge disadvantage since Rohpushin does like being bulky in general.

Possible Lack of Speed? - While Machamp's Speed is still a questionable stat, it can wield a Choice Scarf slightly better than Rohpushin. Furthermore, it does have the edge on being able to outspeed a couple of walls, albeit it still is borderline Speed-creep.

NOTE: MACH PUNCH + FORCE PALM IS ILLEGAL! - It's nothing huge to note, but just in case people got the random idea to "try it".

[Commentary: EVs]

Figured out a solid EV spread thanks to X-Act's Defensive applet. 120 HP | 252 Atk | 136 SpD. This gives Rohpushin maximized attack while making it more defensive than Machamp and "slightly" inferior on the Special Defense side vs. Machamp. To compare them:

If you want to match Machamp's Atk and invest more in Special Defense, you can take up to 80 more EVs out of Attack. Yeah, that's how much more room Rohpushin has to buff his Special Defense problem! It requires 12 EVs to tie HP, then 24 to tie SpD. So you can run with a grand total of:

132 HP | 220 Atk | 160 SpD

Rohpushin will still have +14 Atk over Machamp, but of course it's just recommended to use 120 | 252 | 136 as suggested with an Adamant nature.

Speed sounds appealing, but there's one problem: max Speed Adamant Rohpushin is outsped by Skarmory with minimal investment in Speed (around 52). Simply put: Keep Speed out of the picture.

[Guts vs. Encourage]

This is actually hard to make a solid decision. Encourage technically boosts Rock Slide only so far (yeah, a real bummer). Granted, it becomes more powerful, accurate, and PP conservative than Stone Edge was. Guts might be better on the sets, actually, since Rohpushin has a ridiculous Atk stat as is, and Guts just makes it more painful to face its attacks. This makes Toxic Orb and Flame Orb viable items if you're not looking for Rohpushin to last forever.

Taunt already screws up walls, so even if all it does is use Taunt Rohpushin accomplished its job. Offensively, it can fire off Hammer Arms while not worrying about the Speed drop much. Payback fends off Ghosts (barring Spiritomb, who at least is put aside with Taunt). Rock Slide vs. Stone Edge is accuracy vs. Power pretty much. Both are boosted to 120 and 150 base powers, respectively. Rock Slide also has a bigger PP usage, so it might help in situations with Pressure.

A variation on Standard is to use Force Palm instead of Hammer Arm, then use Guts. This means that you can also use Guts and still be safe from a burn / toxic induction. Sadly Rock Slide drops in power, so you may need to use Stone Edge. Mach Punch is a good move for this set too since Rohpushin does nicely with a priority move on it. It can replace Payback or Rock Slide. If it replaces Rock Slide, simply use Guts.

As nice as Encourage is, the Subpuncher set's best bet is to exploit all of Substitute's benefits. In this case Rohpushin derives the greatest possible advantages from being slower than its opponents. Rohpushin can actually be made slower than Dusknoir with Brave (or some Speed IV drops), so if it Subs as Dusknoir comes in it can get the full damage from Payback. Guts helps it against Burn from Will-o-Wisp, but Iron Fist boosts the power of its Focus Punch and Mach Punch considerably. Mach Punch itself is brilliant for the set, allowing it to maul opponents without their own priority without putting its Substitute at risk.

To be honest, I'm not sure if the SpD EVs help it survive any special attacks in particular, but in any case it probably benefits more from having the Special Defense there then having a Substitute with 2 more HP. Phsyical defense might even be a better investment, need calcs. Together only Heracross and Toxicroak resist Fighting/Dark, and neither of them takes a 135 BP Resistance adjusted Focus Punch off 140 Attack that well (Heracross takes 71.4-84.1% from Iron Fist Focus Punch, enough that Mach Punch can potentially finish it off 25-29.9%, and always after SR).

What's the one thing Machamp lacks as far as a priority move goes? The lack of STAB behind it! Rohpushin uses this to his advantage thanks to Mach Punch being available. You can add Hammer Arm if you need a move that offers consistency. Guts might actually work better for this set, but the main drawback is if the opponent doesn't have a status move in their arsenal, it could bode problems with its usefulness. Still, consider that Toxic Orb / Flame Orb can also be slapped for the same effect as Choice Band with the advantage being versatility and the disadvantage being loss of HP.

Pretty much "go all out". Bulk Up + Guts puts Rohpushin at 832 Attack. With STAB Mach Punch going for you, you're bound to know that things will get deadly. Furthermore, with the Toxic Orb you're immune to status. Sadly, it isn't quite comparable to Swords Dance + Mach Punch Breloom, but being able to obtain a +1 Def is pretty nice, so it's possible to get more Bulk Ups in. 4 Moveslot Syndrome is this set's real weakness since it can set up on phazers such as Hippowdon with Taunt. That would require foregoing Hammer Arm and Payback or Rock-type move of your choice. Payback / Hammer Arm or Rock Slide / Stone Edge + Hammer Arm also works. Payback is more for pure Ghost-types. Facade also works nicely on this set, but be warned: it is cockblocked by Steels and Ghosts!

[Conclusion]

With access to Taunt and its cool abilities, Rohpushin is bound to make a threat one way or another. It is a bit of a middle road with Hariyama and Machamp in that it can abuse Guts to some extent, has access to being able to make decent Subs, fairly bulky, etc. It's sad that it is weak on the Special Defense side of the spectrum, but with its modest 105 base HP it helps cut for some of the slack. On the physical defensive side, Machamp can't compare, so it definitely is great on that part.

There isn't much more to add, but hey! Maybe you guys can help throw some cool school ideas for the community. Let's hear it for the Pokemon that's so manly he carries two stones with his hands: Rohpushin!

if i use the ability that cancels effect would it cancel the negative priority for focus punch?
and is the stat drop from super power canceled also?

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Nope, how it works is that those are primary effects. Secondary effects involve, for example, "chance to burn, flinch, etc". Not 100% sure if Payback, Mach Punch, and Drain Punch, though I assume those would work fine.

Rohpushin's greatest problem will be differentiating itself from Machamp. Machamp is only slightly less powerful, but it's similarly bulky and faster.

If I'm to understand Encourage correctly, Brick Break would actually be its most powerful STAB, (at 112.5 in exchange for not breaking screens, and much better PP than Drain Punch), and should be used over Hammer Arm (since Encourage does not stop stat drops and BB would have more accuracy). This would need to be tested though.

This pokemon is pro, it can be used in trick room teams where he destroys alot. 140 base atk stat isn't something to laugh about. The high atk makes up for the speed stat. Anyways, this pokemon can use some agility baton passers like ninjask, as well as trick room support.

EDIT: Can he use a set like lead hariyama? Flame Orb etc. The disadvantages is that hes not fast nor bulky like machamp.

Rohpushin's greatest problem will be differentiating itself from Machamp. Machamp is only slightly less powerful, but it's similarly bulky and faster.

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The only thing that Machamp really carries as an advantage is No Guard and Dynamicpunch. Stone Edge is slightly irrelevant since Rock Slide, of all moves, can be boosted to have +20 base power in exchange for flinching (which who cares). Machamp's Spe is barely an edge: at best it does a Speed creep with Blissey. At the moment, Sleep Talk also remains an advantage. I'll grant you that Confusion is a huge boon.

Meanwhile, Rohpushin carries edges with Encourage boosting its Rock-type attacks. Guts is easy to use on this guy, unlike Machamp since under most circumstances Machamp needs to fire No Guard Dynamicpunches to make sure the opponent has a 50% chance of doing nothing. Mach Punch is also significant as it gives Rohpushin a STAB priority move as well.

Defensively, Machamp has a max HP of 384 with 196 Def | 206 SpD, since we're assuming max Atk. 0 EV Rohpushin has 351 HP: a difference of 33 points I admit, but Machamp also put all of its EVs into HP while Rohpushin hasn't invested a single point. For its other Defenses it has 226 Def | 116 SpD. Assuming max Atk, X-Act's Defensive Applet suggests 381 HP | 226 Def | 199 SpD.

Still, defensively they're about even, though Rohpushin leads more physically defensive while Machamp has a little more Special Defense on him.

Either way, yes, it does have to find some niches away from Machamp, but you have to admit: it does already have some with the base stats and a few key differences in the movepool. Machamp can't even brag Iron Fist Focus Punch, but of course in return Rohpushin can't counter No Guard Dynamicpunch easy.

If I'm to understand Encourage correctly, Brick Break would actually be its most powerful STAB, (at 112.5 in exchange for not breaking screens, and much better PP than Drain Punch), and should be used over Hammer Arm (since Encourage does not stop stat drops and BB would have more accuracy). This would need to be tested though.

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I was unsure on it, so I didn't list Brick Break. If you're right, though, then yeah I can easily see Brick Break as the best STAB since it has 150 base power (with STAB and Encourage boost included).

This thing is going to be awesome for a trick room team. Still Machamp with its No Guard ability evens for Rohpushin's greater HP stat which makes this a hard choice. Judging by this thing's stats it will make a good baton pass receiver or at least an anti-lead. In my opinion Rohpushin will be really affected by the move tutors (Curse will be pretty much AWESOME on him).

Updated Rohpushin stuff. Since we don't know about Encourage all the way, I'm going to say that Guts is probably the better of abilities. More emphasis on Mach Punch too, since it is a pretty big selling point against Machamp.

I heard from SDS that Encourage doesn't boost high crit moves, so sadly Stone Edge doesn't get a boost. Guts is the better ability for now, especially since Bulky Waters are more apt to run Boiling Water now.

though I have read through just about every thread for b/w this is the only one I have commented on. I love this guy, he's just awesome, though nobody seems to have realised a certain aspect of his tanking ability. I think this set would work quite nicely, and be fairly annyoingly hard to take down.

basiclly, you set up bulk ups, and regain as much hp as possible through drain punches resting when needed. With the Iron fist boost, the recovery from drain punch, should be fairly good coupled with leftys after a bulk up or two. payback is mainly for coverage, though you could use rockslide, but it's pretty much up to you. attack evs can be run over defense ones, to get more drain punch recovery.

I'm liking a guts mach punch using set though...god this guy is so cool

Just to show how bad ass and strong Rohpushin is, it can 2HKO Nattorei with Hammer Arm with no +Atk nature or Atk EVs, though I don't think it can do that on the most Defensive ones with 252 Hp/252Def and Impish nature, but a balanced one. Oh yeah it still outspeeds Nattorei after the -1 SPeed which is just LOL!

Anyways, he isn't better than Machamp.With the 'Champ you can take out 1-3 Pokemon if your a little Lucky and still have a Substitute up.Would anyone really want to trade that possibility for 10 extra Attack points?

This guy will never be as good as the 'Champ solely because of that possibility.But i do see him as a good Pokemon.Having Mach Punch is a huge deal, and that high defense is awesome.

Anyways, he isn't better than Machamp.With the 'Champ you can take out 1-3 Pokemon if your a little Lucky and still have a Substitute up.Would anyone really want to trade that possibility for 10 extra Attack points?

This guy will never be as good as the 'Champ solely because of that possibility.But i do see him as a good Pokemon.Having Mach Punch is a huge deal, and that high defense is awesome.

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The thing is that he has the potential to do so. The difference between the two is negligible(imo) stat wise. The big difference is No Guard(Again, this is coming off speculation- otherwise, they basically do everything the same).

The main problem(again, in my opinion) for our cinderblock toting buddy is the lack of move tutors in B/W. If they add new ones in Grey, and tweak his move pool like they tend to do in the 3rd game of a generation, we may have a monster equivalent to machamp on our hands.

all in all i still think he's a great monster though, and i intend to use both of them on my mono-type fighting team

Iron Fist really really is redundant when you have encourage. Encourage gives the same boost?(20%) to all moves, not just punches. Exception is for drain punch.

New Best defensive ou fighter with immediate offensive presence, drain punch+iron fist = strongest hp sapping move.
Only thing is that it doesn't get encore like machamp =((nor does it have good special dfense.

Iron Fist really really is redundant when you have encourage. Encourage gives the same boost?(20%) to all moves, not just punches. Exception is for drain punch.

New Best defensive ou fighter with immediate offensive presence, drain punch+iron fist = strongest hp sapping move.
Only thing is that it doesn't get encore like machamp =((nor does it have good special dfense.

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According to the thread about encourage, this is what we have that it boosts in his movepool:

By the way, I went to check on this. Mach Punch + Force Palm is an illegal move combination. And, technically, Mach Punch and Drain Punch are "illegal" with Iron Fist at the moment since we can't confirm Dream World stuff. Encourage, by the way, boosts moves by 30%, not 20% like Iron Fist does. This makes Rock Slide have 97.5 Base Power, which makes it slightly weaker than Stone Edge, but obviously has better accuracy to boot.

Though I don't really know what this shows exactly, the minor difference in speed seems to have made a significant difference between the two, which seems to say that speed is more important than attack when it comes to "sweepiness", though Machamp's speed is hardly anything to brag about.

And as always with BSR's, there are so many factors otherwise, so don't take it too seriously.